What is the object of the project?

According to the strategic plan of the YCRP for the application of modern technologies in its field of activity, the main objective is to exploit new technologies and artificial intelligence to enhance its capabilities in each sector, with particular emphasis on prevention, preparedness and early warning. To this end, the Ministry will implement a holistic operational system that will exploit all the existing and new systems available under two main operational pillars:

1. National Crisis Management and Prevention System
2. National Early Warning System

What is the purpose and expected benefits of this project?

The purpose is to centrally manage and process the available data in order to adequately support the information and decision-making process.

More specifically, the benefits expected to accrue include, among others:

• The integration of information from multiple source systems into a single infrastructure and a common data model is expected to facilitate and accelerate the process of generating reports and analyses, potentially in real time, for both internal and external users.
• Maintaining historical information, even from source systems that do not support it, will allow the identification of trends and the monitoring of dynamic phenomena that is currently not possible.
• The creation of a single and common data dictionary will create a common code of communication between services and thus a common and objective capture of the most important performance indicators, creating the “common version of the truth”.
• The definition of the Information Governance framework will set the rules for the management and use of information, ensuring in all cases its security, especially in cases of sensitive data.
• The use of Big Data techniques, especially in public cloud computing, allows the smooth expansion and scaling of services, ensuring the coverage of both existing and future needs of the operating entity.
• The use of the information will highlight potential problems in data quality and will help to define corrective actions in the source systems and to monitor the evolution of these actions.
• The unified provision of data management and processing services ensures economies of scale as reporting and analysis needs will be served centrally and will not have to be addressed individually in the context of the different projects and actions carried out by the State.
• The creation of ready-made reports and analyses will allow civil servants to concentrate on analysing the results instead of spending time preparing them and processing the information, often manually. With this investment, the Ministry of Civil Protection gains the ability to leverage data analytics tools in crisis and natural disaster management planning.